Dorfman theatre, LondonComedy infuses Winsome Pinnock's disarming but ebullient drama about two Black academics who are given the job of authenticating the diaries of an enslaver You don't i…
Dundee RepCumming and Forbes Masson revive their cult 1994 TV sitcom with brilliant songs and a Beano-esque plot as budget Air Scotia is threatened with takeover If someone tells you this mu…
Watermill theatre, NewburyScreenwriter Daisy Goodwin imagines the old queen revisiting her diaries and reveals a tale of control and coercion behind Albert's dutiful devotion When screenwrit…
After years of skits and Shakespeare, the Black Country performer has found his biggest audience yet on Saturday Night Live UK. Phil Wang and others hail his 'pure comedic instinct' A cast o…
The great Shakespearean shares his passion project, there's a sneak peek of Sam Ryder's Jesus Christ Superstar and Back to the Future: The Musical hits reverse When stages went dark during t…
Royal Exchange theatre, ManchesterSparring lovers play a capricious game in Blanche McIntyre's revival " but the cut and thrust is kept witty, rather than curdling into danger In director Bl…
National theatre, LondonA queenly Lesley Manville steals the show in this dark, rageful tale of seduction as contact sport Pierre Choderlos de Laclos was serving as an artillery officer whil…
Tron, GlasgowThe life-and-death choices that a stressed-out nurse faces on a short-staffed weekend are taken to gothic heights in this intense, atmospheric play The standard colour scheme fo…
Unicorn theatre, London The Unicorn and RSC's accessible adaptation is at its best in comic set pieces " even if the pared-down plot still feels cluttered How to make Shakespeare accessible …
The rapper was hospitalized in New York City after feeling unwell during her Moulin Rouge performance on Broadway Megan Thee Stallion was taken to the hospital on Tuesday in New York City af…
Championed by a former chief medical officer, Lifeline is both a musical following Alexander Fleming's discovery of the first antibiotic and a warning about the threat of superbugs in the pr…
Other winners include Inter Alia's Rosamund Pike, Ivo van Hove for All My Sons and Hayley Atwell who beat her Much Ado co-star Tom Hiddleston to best Shakespearean performance Brendan Gleeso…
London PalladiumThe musical-theatre megastars fall in and out of love, in opposing timelines, in a stirring production of Jason Robert Brown's musical After her electrifying Evita, Rachel Ze…
Shakespeare North Playhouse, PrescotA reluctant return to the valleys brings a reckoning with a violent past and problematic present in Katie Payne's vivid and raw monologue Playwright Kati…
Royal Court theatre, LondonA class on The Crucible unearths troubling parallels for a group of teen girls in Kimberly Belflower's play set in the wake of the Weinstein scandal Kimberly Belfl…
Film and theatre producer who made The Audience the starting point for The Crown, and was behind Another Country, The Lady in the Van, Iris and Notes on a Scandal Scion of one of the great t…
In this week's newsletter: From singers to YouTube stars and TV hosts, more famous faces are treading the boards. Some insiders think it's killing the industry, but for others it opens up th…
Bristol Old VicThe Reduced Shakespeare Company returns with a frantic mix of pratfalls, audience participation and lightning-flash characterisations A classical actor who appeared in a recen…
Barbican Centre, LondonFrom Stavros to Wayne Slob, Loadsamoney to DJ Dave Nice, the 64-year-old distilled whole characters and social types To younger audiences, Harry Enfield may be best kn…
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonJocelyn Bioh's comedy " following a day in the life of a Harlem braiding salon " is filled with humour and hijinks 'Don't touch my hair" is a racially-charged statem…
Finborough theatre, LondonIrritable passions ferment beneath the frowsty knits and beads in atmospheric 1935 psychological thriller Lonely lives, falling between the gaps, are at the heart o…
Their shows caused mayhem. Now Tamm Reynolds " AKA Midgitte Bardot " is really going for the jugular, hitting back at prejudice with a wild new act Most performers want attention when the…
King's Head theatre, LondonThe media tycoon comes up against union boss Brenda Dean in Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky's docudrama about the 80s Wapping dispute A teacher in Alan Bennett's The …
London ColiseumSuperbly cast, the dancer brings stratospheric levels of charisma to a rather pedestrian show driven by Cyndi Lauper's songs Johannes Radebe (AKA Jojo from Strictly) is a born…
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe's pure chemistry perfectly encapsulates the urgent and uncompromising nature of first love Has the conveyor belt from screen-to-stage celebrity turned full circle wh…